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occurring in different specimens. Also, when pointing out the 

 differences in this respect between the horned Tervueren and 

 the London specimen \ I have taken care to state in a general 

 manner that the latter differs from the former in the predomi- 

 nance of the white over the black in the fore legs, and in the con- 

 verse condition in the hind legs. The general coloration of the 

 Tervueren skins is dark brown, as opposed to the rich red-brown 

 colour of the specimen in the Natural History Museum, which 

 shows a darker dorsal stripe; the dorsal stripe in the former 

 being lighter than the general coloration. The lateral parts of 

 the face, which are creamy white in the London specimen, are 

 greyish in the mounted individual of Tervueren. In all these 

 features excepting the dorsal stripe, which I have omitted to 

 verify, the newly -arrived skin agrees with the Tervueren 

 specimen. 



The last mail, which arrived at Antwerp the 4th of this month, 

 brought the skeleton of the specimen to which belongs the skin 

 received a few weeks before. 



The animals are apparently skinned by the natives on the spot 

 where they are killed, which may be situated at a considerable 

 distance from the nearest post; their invariable custom in 

 skinning the animal seems to be to cut away the generative 

 organs, so that the Belgian officials have to rely on the informa- 

 tion of the natives as to the sex of an individual. In the case 

 of the London specimen and the one arrived the other day, there 

 was no information whatever in this respect. The first skin 

 received at Brussels was stated to be that of a female, and, as I 

 had at the time no reason to doubt this statement, I described ^ 

 the adult female of the Okapi as being provided with horns like 

 the male. 



The skull recently received is that of a quite adult individual ; 

 the teeth are well worn and the coronal suture is obliterated. 

 The two bumps rising from the posterior region of the frontals 

 shovf about the same degree of development as in the larger of 

 the two skulls in the Natural History Museum, but the diffuse 

 swelling of the surrounding region, produced by a greater de- 

 velopment of the underlying air-sinuses, makes them appear less 

 prominent. 



There are no traces whatever of horns. Apart from this, the 

 skull exhibits the same characters which I have pointed out as 

 being of specific value in the horned skull ; it is narrower still than 

 the latter, the absence of horns sufficiently accounting for this 

 difference ; the maximum of width is situated behind the orbits, 

 therefore f ui-ther back than in the London skull ; the parietal 

 region and the zygoma are shorter; and the maxillary region 

 above the cheek-teeth lower, both absolutely and relatively. The 

 last character appears to acquire more weight from the circum- 

 stance that the London skuU. is not adult, because the vertical 



1 ' La Belgique Coloniale,' Nov. 9th, 1902, p. 532. 



2 ' La Belgique Coloniale,' May 25tb, 1902, p, 245 ; P. Z. S. 1902, ii. p. 77. 



